Sorting in Descending Order

[Stefan Reece]

How do I sort a numeric column in descending order? For example, I want to sort age from highest to lowest - 49, 47, 32, 21, etc. Using "gsort" does not do the trick when I thought it would. Any advice?

[John Mullahy]

Did you try

gsort - age

It will, of course, sort the entire dataset, not just the age variable (column).